Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher
Born: 1985-02-00
Birthplace: London
Died: 2007-11-01
Location of Death: Perugia
Cause of Death: Murder
Race: White
Field: Victim
Famous for: Stabbed to death in her bedroom
Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher was born on February 1985 in Southwark, London, England, and lived in Coulsdon, South London. She attended the University of Leeds. She had been part of the ERASMUS student exchange programme, and had gone to Italy to complete her degree course.
Kercher was murdered on the evening of 1 November 2007, with pathologists putting her time of death between 20:30 and 23:00. A judge assigned to the case read the pathology report at a bail hearing for the suspects and ruled that Kercher's carotid artery had not been ruptured in the attack, and that she likely died a "relatively slow and agonizing death."
The following morning, the Postal Police came to investigate the discovery of two mobile phones in a nearby garden, one which was registered to Ms Kercher. When they breached the door to Kercher's room, which had been locked from the inside, they reportedly found Kercher lying beneath a duvet in her room "soaked in blood." Police have said Kercher's throat was slit with a knife, and have located the weapon. Police initially believed that the killer or killers escaped through a broken window in Kercher's room, since the door was locked when they arrived, but now suspect the break-in was staged. The following morning, Amanda Knox was spotted by two men at a laundromat on Via Fabretti washing clothes and a pair of shoes with a "North African" man.
Three of the suspects in the case are currently being held in Perugia: Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito (an Italian student and Knox's former boyfriend), and Rudy Hermann Guede, who was arrested in Germany on November 20 and extradited to Italy on 6 December. All three suspects remain in Capanne Prison, a 20-minute drive from Perugia.
People charged with the murder
Rudy Guede
Rudy Hermann Guede (born 26 December 1986, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)was 20 at the time of the murder. He had come to Perugia at the age of five with his father,who worked as a labourer in the 1990s.At the age of 16, when his father left Italy, Guede was informally adopted by the family of a local businessman.Guede had acquired joint Italian nationality and sporadically studied accounting and hotelkeeping.He also played basketball for the Perugia youth team in the 2004–2005 season.He often stayed with his aunt in Lecco, about 50 km north of Milan, and sometimes worked in Milan bars, returning occasionally to Perugia.
Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox (born 9 July 1987, Seattle, Washington) was, at the time of the murder, a 20-year-old University of Washington language student who shared a flat with Kercher.She was in Perugia attending the University for Foreigners for one year, studying Italian, German and creative writing.Knox met Raffaele Sollecito, an Italian student, at a classical music concert held on 25 October 2007,which she attended with Kercher at the University for Foreigners. When Kercher left at the intermission, Sollecito met Knox.On October 3, 2011, a jury of two judges and six citizens reversed Knox's conviction in the murder of Meredith Kercher. The jury affirmed Knox's conviction of defamation against her former employer.
Raffaele Sollecito
Raffaele Sollecito (born 26 March 1984, Giovinazzo, Bari) was 23 years old at the time of the murder, and nearing the completion of a degree in computer engineering at the University of Perugia, which he finished while imprisoned. On October 3, 2011, Sollectio's conviction with respect to the murder of Meredith Kercher was reversed
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